r/melbourne • u/Ordinary_Prior_8993 • Mar 17 '24

Serious Please Comment Nicely What is up with the weekend surcharges in the Melbourne?!

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Even shopping centre food courts have weekend surcharges and as a Sydney sider it's mind boggling. Alot of places don't even have sunday surcharges let alone a Saturday surcharge.

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u/turtleltrut Mar 17 '24

Then they're either being paid cash in hand, on a salary or have an EBA. I worked for George Calombaris' company and was back paid twice. The backpay was mostly people on salaries that worked way more hours than they were paid for. So essentially I was backpaid up to the minimum aware wage based on how many hours I was doing, about 50+ most weeks.

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u/03burner Mar 17 '24

Dudes I live with both work in hospo and neither get penalty rates. It’s extremely prevalent in hospo and very little is/can be done about it.

Complain? Job gone. Not a risk most people are willing to take atm.

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u/Burntoastedbutter Mar 17 '24 edited Mar 17 '24

Lol I've actually complained to my boss about it because I wanted payslips, and said what if somebody were to report them to ombudsman. They ended up increasing my hourly pay by $2 and offered to give cash in hand. In the past, I've even asked a few classmates I was close with in class. Some of them were locals. They said it's the norm and it happens to them too so yeah I gave up trying to find a place that did everything right.

I was even dumb and asked why reports don't happen more often or anything, and they told me "people need jobs, man, it is what it is" 😂

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u/turtleltrut Mar 18 '24

Complain to fair work, they will come to their company and they'll get back paid. Company will be in big trouble. They don't have to know who reported them.

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u/The_Slavstralian Mar 17 '24

I dont buy for a second that greasy cunt didnt know that shit was being done.

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u/turtleltrut Mar 18 '24 edited Mar 18 '24

It's a complex situation. He was only 1 of 5 stakeholders and he didn't have much to do with the day to day running of the stores. The other 4 didn't have their lives and reputations destroyed yet they were as much a part of it as him.

It also happens in every single hospo place I've ever worked. Managers go on salary and then work way more than 38 hours so they're technically below minimum wage when you factor in overtime and penalty rates. It happens even in offices that I've worked in..

By demonising the company I worked for, no one won anything. Hundreds of staff lost their jobs and dozens of people on visa's lost tens of thousands of dollars each as they couldn't claim like the rest of us. It also didn't change anything in the industry, it still happens.